B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank

Delivered Cheyenne 1/3/44; Kearney 27/3/44; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-Y] Rougham 4/4/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 7/10/44 with 1Lt Roy E Kennedy (RTD); damaged by enemy aircraft, crash landed in allied territory; Copilot, navigator and taigunner bailed out early – POW; rest 6 men RTD. Missing Air Crew Report 9557. RENOVATION

Delivered Cheyenne 10/1/44; Savannah 22/1/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR- ] Thorpe Abbotts 3/2/44; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 3/3/44 with Capt Bob Lohof, Co-pilot: Capt Gerry Putnam, Navigator: Bill Vaden, Bombardier: Paul Davis, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sid Goldenburg, Radio Operator: Guy Brown, Ball turret gunner: Vern Lines, Waist gunner: Jim Butler, Waist gunner: Rich David (9 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: George Briggs{died of unknown illness 11/4/45} (Killed in Service); battle damaged, crashed Peissen, six miles N of Itzhoe/Holstein, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3022. BERTHA THE BLUES.

Delivered Long Beach 9/9/43; Assigned 394BS/100BG [XR-A] Thorpe Abbotts 27/9/43; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 3/3/44 with Bob Vollmer, Navigator: Ed Sullivan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Humphrey, Ball turret gunner: Don Guthrie, Waist gunner: Tom Mullenix (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: John Adams, Bombardier: Ernie Clark, Radio Operator: Elias Johnson, Waist gunner: Don Becker,Tail gunner: George Wood (5 Killed in Action); mid-air coll with 42-31970 (100BG), crashed Drage, near Hohenaspe, six miles N of Iztehoe, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3029. MURDERER’S ROW.

Delivered Long Beach 14/9/43; Scott 21/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 16/11/43; transferred 511BS/351BG [DS-F] Polebrook 18/11/43; {14m} crash landed base 30/1/44; on practice mission 2/2/44 with George Mears, Co-pilot: Paul Anderson, Navigator: Wayne Livesay, Navigator: Paul Anderson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Arthur John, Radio Operator: Bill Marutz, three pass.-Lt Walt Shepherd, Sgt Vernon Neinuhr, Sgt Sam Simms (9 Returned to Duty); u/c buckled on landing, Co-pilot: intended to pull up flaps. Salvaged 5/2/44. CANNON BALL.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/43; Kearney 5/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-X, RQ-P] Polebrook 27/12/43; Missing in Action Oberpfaffenhofen 18/3/44 with Ray Neuberg, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Sharp, Radio Operator: Ira Houk, Ball turret gunner: Bob Workman,Tail gunner: Neal Quigley (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Bob Swenson, Navigator: Chas Finklestein, Bombardier: Bill Manley, Waist gunner: David Eckes, Waist gunner: Lewis Lowans (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3 & #4, crashed Heiligkrueztal, 12 miles NE of Singmaringen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3239. MY GAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/43; Bangor 23/5/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-W] Rougham /43; (332BS [QE-W] Missing in Action Le Bourget 14/7/43 with Capt Kee Harrison*, Co-pilot: Dave Turner*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Curtis*, Ball turret gunner: Jefferson Polk (3 evaded capture – these three* eventually walked to Spain and returned UK); Navigator: Bob Conroy, Bombardier: Roscoe Greene, Radio Operator: Chas McNemar, Ball turret gunner: Jefferson Polk, Waist gunner: Earl Porath, Waist gunner: Dick Lewis,Tail gunner: Einos Asiala (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 & #4 and destroying oxygen bottles, crash landed Berengeville-la-Campagne, five miles NE of Evreux, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 114. MR FIVE BY FIVE aka NIP ‘N TUCK. (Restored by Luftwaffe.)

Delivered Long Beach 29/8/43; Scott 22/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 26/10/43; transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-S] Polebrook 18/11/43; 4m Ludwigshaven 30/12/43 with Joe Adamiak, Co-pilot: W. Crockett, Bombardier: W.Kelder,ro-C. Davis,Tail gunner: Seymour Zeitler (5 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Leighton Zeiner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Bone, Ball turret gunner: Chas Ellman, Waist gunner: Grady Fuqua, Waist gunner: Dom Ciafaglia (5KIA-baled too low for chutes to open); crash landed Hawkinge, Kent, UK 30/12/43; sal 5 SAD Stansted 2/1/44. LITTLE TWINKLE.

Delivered Denver 13/10/43; Gr Island 29/10/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-W] Thorpe Abbotts 18/11/43; Missing in Action Oberpfaffenhofen 18/3/44 with Don Stuke, Navigator: George Owens, Bombardier: Clarry Pullem, Radio Operator: Arthur Tuott, Ball turret gunner: Irving Cooke, Waist gunner: Joe Ogg, Waist gunner: Joe Dragovich,Tail gunner: Phil Donnelly (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Tom Lemond (evaded capture); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dan Segrete (Prisoner of War); mid-air coll with 42-39830 (100BG), two engines broke away and nose with only #4 operating; crashed Place de Moulin, Campeaux, two miles N of Hericourt-St Samson, E of Rouen, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 3233.

Delivered Long Beach 14/9/43; Gr Island 3/10/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Y] Thorpe Abbotts 8/10/43; Missing in Action Munich 18/3/44 with Paul Martin, Co-pilot: Tom Cryan, Navigator: Tom Hughes, Bombardier: Albt Racz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Levi Tonn, Radio Operator: Russ Longdon, Waist gunner: Lonnie Albin, Waist gunner: Veryl Lund,Tail gunner: John Howley (9 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Dick Faulkner (evaded capture); mid-air coll with 42-37913 (100BG); crashed Frevent, near Haudricourt, 16 miles SW of Poix, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 3234. BERLIN PLAYBOY.

Delivered Long Beach 16/7/43; Cheyenne 20/7/43; 94 Sub Dep Scott 30/9/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-P] Bassingbourn 21/10/43; transferred 401BS [LL-P]; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1/12/43 with Jens Weiby, Co-pilot: Joe Prezzano, Navigator: Dan Harrington, Bombardier: Sid Kaplan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Roberts, Radio Operator: Henry Kanfoush, Ball turret gunner: Leon Lemire, Waist gunner: Fred Stewart, Waist gunner: Gene Scott,Tail gunner: Sol Schuster (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Leutesdorf, on bank of Rhine, 12 miles NW of Koblenz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1322.

Delivered Dallas 25/8/44; Langley 18/9/44; Dow Fd 12/10/44; Assigned 848BS/490BG Eye 14/10/44; transferred 332BS/94BG [XM-S] Rougham 15/10/44; 398BG Nuthampstead 17/10/44; PHYLLIS JO.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/12/43; Kearney 19/12/43; Presque Is 9/1/44; RAF Nutts Corner 18/1/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-L] Bassingbourn 27/1/44; 401BS [LL-L]; 100+m Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 11/6/45; Romulus 12/6/45; Topeka 13/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. LITTLE PATCHES.

Delivered Dallas 20/8/44; Langley 5/9/44; Dow Fd 8/10/44; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-A] Polebrook 4/11/44; 511BS [DS-A]; {27m} transferred 305BG Chelveston 5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46. LITTLE RUNT.

Delivered Long Beach 11/9/43; Gr Island 10/10/43; Scott 30/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 4/11/43; transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-O] Polebrook 18/11/43; Missing in Action 8m Bordeaux 31/12/43 with Pilot Marvin H. Bender; Co-pilot: William J. Grupp; Radio Operator: Francis W. Rollins; Ball turret gunner: Levi H. Collins; Left Waist gunner: Harold F. Long; Right Waist gunner: Veikko J. Koski;Tail gunner: Lawrence R. Anderson (all 7 made Prisoners of War). The Navigator, Harold O. Freeman, the Bombardier, Robert B. Wilcox and the Flight engineer/top turret gunner, Francis E. Anderson all evaded capture. Flak, crashed in the sea, off the coast of Royan, France. Missing Air Crew Report – MACR 1983.

Delivered Dallas 25/8/44; Langley 19/9/44; Dow Fd 13/10/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-U] Polebrook 5/11/44; {23m} transferred 305BG Chelveston 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 5/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/44; Lincoln 15/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN- ] Thorpe Abbotts 3/9/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Bill McNab, Co-pilot: Nelson Vaughn, Henry Ethridge, Duane Rench, Francis Seyfried (5 Killed in Action); Jack Berkowitz, Ray Comer, Joe Chadwick, Ball turret gunner: Ed Woodall (4 Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 42-31987 (100BG) which came up to fill a gap in the formation after another ship went down, both aircraft were locked together and crashed Rustringen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11359. NINE LIVES.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/44; Kearney 22/1/44; Romulus 23/2/44; Grenier 28/2/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-A] Thorpe Abbotts 10/3/44; 418BS [LD-D]; Missing in Action Misburg 31/12/44 with Glen Rojohn, Co-pilot: Bill Leek, Navigator: Bob Washington, Bombardier: Jim Shirley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Orville Elkin, Radio Operator: Ed Neuhaus (6 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Joe Russo, Waist gunner: Roy Little,Tail gunner: Francis Chase (3 Killed in Action); mid air coll, crashed Rustringen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11550. SHILAYLEE aka THE LITTLE SKIPPER.

Delivered Lincoln 28/10/44; Grenier 5/12/44; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-M] Ridgewell 4/1/45; {31+m} Returned to the USA Bradley 28/5/45; Sth Plains 31/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45.

Delivered Lincoln 29/10/44; Grenier 12/11/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 20/11/44; crash landed after local flight with ? 16/12/44; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/10/44; Hunter 6/11/44; Dow Fd 2/12/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 16/12/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 19/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 2/1/46. MISS PURDY.